"Anything is true, is essential to the national."

"Film is an artificial construct. It pretends to reconstruct reality. But it doesn't do that—it's a manipulative form. It's a lie that can reveal the truth. But if a film isn't a work of art, it's just…"

"What is true is alas not new, the new not true."

"From 1920 onward, depicted Italy as a ‘proletarian’ nation exploited by hostile ‘plutocratic’ countries determined to deny her her rightful place under the sun. The true class struggle, according to F…"

"Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself."